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Personal data Flora Payne Whitney 

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Household of Flora Payne Whitney

(1) She is married to Roderick "Roddy" Tower.

They got married on April 19, 1920 at Manhattan, New York, USA, she was 22 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Pamela Tower  1921-2013
  2. Whitney Tower  1923-1999


(2) She is married to George MacCulloch Miller.

They got married on February 24, 1927 at Cairo, Egypt, she was 29 years old.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Flora Payne Whitney

William Collins Whitney
1841-1904
Flora Payne
1842-1893
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT
1843-1899
Alice Claypoole GWYNNE
1845-1934

Flora Payne Whitney
1897-1986

(1) 1920

Roderick "Roddy" Tower
1892-1961

Pamela Tower
1921-2013
Whitney Tower
1923-1999
(2) 1927

George MacCulloch Miller
1886-1972


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    2. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com

    Historical events

    Birthday July 29, 1897

    • The temperature on July 29, 1897 was about 20.2 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 68%. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1897: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
      • January 31 » Czechoslav Trade Union Association is founded in Prague.
      • February 1 » Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul.
      • April 30 » J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announces his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the atomic nucleus), at a lecture at the Royal Institution in London.
      • May 26 » Dracula, a Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.
      • September 11 » After months of pursuit, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho, the last king of Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.
      • December 9 » Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper La Fronde in Paris.

    Day of marriage February 24, 1927

    • The temperature on February 24, 1927 was between 1.9 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 5.7 mm of rain. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1927: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
      • March 11 » In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
      • April 30 » The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.
      • July 23 » The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
      • August 7 » The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
      • December 8 » The Brookings Institution, one of the United States' oldest think tanks, is founded through the merger of three organizations that had been created by philanthropist Robert S. Brookings.
      • December 17 » Indian revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri is hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled date.

    Day of death July 18, 1986

    • The temperature on July 18, 1986 was between 9.2 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
    • In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1986: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
      • February 9 » Halley's Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System.
      • June 30 » The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Bowers v. Hardwick that states can outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults.
      • July 2 » Rodrigo Rojas and Carmen Gloria Quintana are burnt alive during a street demonstration against the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile.
      • October 9 » The Phantom of the Opera, eventually the second longest running musical in London, opens at Her Majesty's Theatre.
      • October 19 » The president of Mozambique and a prominent leader of FRELIMO, along with 33 others, die when their aircraft crashes into the Lebombo Mountains.
      • October 21 » In Lebanon, pro-Iran kidnappers claim to have abducted American writer Edward Tracy (he is released in August 1991).
    

    Same birth/death day

    Source: Wikipedia

    Source: Wikipedia

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